“Raindrops” by Basement Jaxx

"Raindrops" kicked off the Scars campaign in June 2009, the first single from Basement Jaxx's fifth album, and it finds the British duo back in fighting shape with a house record that glitters and pounds in equal measure. Felix Buxton wrote it with Simon Ratcliffe, the male vocal is his, and the track leans on Auto-Tune.

Critics mostly swooned. The BBC handed it five stars and heard an uplifting house juggernaut, PopMatters and Pitchfork both scored it eight, and Pitchfork ranked it among the pair's finest, shamelessly trippy with disco still pumping at its core. Digital Spy was cooler, giving three stars and calling it a welcome but careful comeback. Jess Holzworth's video, premiered on Channel 4, went partly kaleidoscopic, a whirl of feathers, masks, ferns and provocatively dancing women.

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